Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 40
... delightful reminiscence , Some Piquant People ; and it was Reid's infuriating habit to chalk his cue , poise it , sight the ball with great deliberation , then suddenly rise up and ask Mark his opinion of some scene in The Boy Hunters ...
... delightful reminiscence , Some Piquant People ; and it was Reid's infuriating habit to chalk his cue , poise it , sight the ball with great deliberation , then suddenly rise up and ask Mark his opinion of some scene in The Boy Hunters ...
Page 71
... delightful glimpse of the New England poets in their relations with autograph hunters , is given by Thomas Bailey Aldrich in his Ponkapog Papers , as follows : " Each recipient of such requests has of course his own way of responding ...
... delightful glimpse of the New England poets in their relations with autograph hunters , is given by Thomas Bailey Aldrich in his Ponkapog Papers , as follows : " Each recipient of such requests has of course his own way of responding ...
Page 169
... delightful of all mysteries uninvestigated . " Well , yes ! I can go a long way with Miss Long- fellow on that road . But first let us agree on the " most delightful of all mysteries . " I take it that Miss Longfellow is now speaking of ...
... delightful of all mysteries uninvestigated . " Well , yes ! I can go a long way with Miss Long- fellow on that road . But first let us agree on the " most delightful of all mysteries . " I take it that Miss Longfellow is now speaking of ...
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